What might be causing the “The client disconnected” ASP.NET exception?

The vbdork.net domain seems to now be defunct. In searching on this error, I found several references to this article. So I found a google cached version of it and am now posting it here for reference. The original URL was: http://vbdork.net/post/2009/02/10/The-client-disconnected.aspx You get the message The client Disconnected. You’re likely to sporadically get this … Read more

How do I set up global load balancing using Digital Ocean DNS and Nginx?

The Goal: Offer highly-available service to my users by routing all connections to the closest ‘cluster’ of servers in SFO, NYC, LON, and eventually Singapore. The global-balancing layer then routes the request to theleast connected server… If I’m reading your configuration correctly, you’re actually proxying from your global balancers to the balancers at each region. … Read more

Proxying WebSockets with TCP load balancer without sticky sessions

I think what we need to understand in order to answer this question is how exactly the underlying TCP connection evolves during the whole WebSocket creation process. You will realize that the sticky part of a WebSocket connection is the underlying TCP connection itself. I am not sure what you mean with “session” in the … Read more